Coaching in Organisations Specialisation

This unit explores the role of coaching in organisations and how it differentiates from mentoring, counselling and supervision. It equips the manager with the capacity to assess the appropriateness of coaching in an organisational environment, along with foundational coaching skills. There is a focus on experiential learning and applicability to the student's professional situation.

Learning Outcomes

• Differentiate between coaching, mentoring, counselling and supervision
• Understand and discuss the value and implications of coaching
• Analyse coaching in a range of organisational settings
• Develop a plan for coaching within an organisational setting
• Determine the ethical implications of coaching with respect to professionalism, practice and boundaries
• Develop greater understanding of your own beliefs, values and identity in the context of organisational counselling

Content Areas

• Historical Development
• Major Approaches to Coaching
• Foundational Coaching Skills
• Boundaries and Ethics for Coaching
• Internal Versus External Coaching
• Assessing Coaching Outcomes
• Coaching for Self-Awareness
• Coaching for Professional Development
• Coaching for Leadership and Change
• Identify Need and Potential for Coaching
• Application of Ethics and Values to Goal-Setting
• Negotiating the Environment – Implications of Coaching and its Effects in Personal/Family/Work Settings

Unit Duration and Workload

This unit involves a total of 36 hours of face to face delivery or self-directed study including educator contact in flexible delivery modes, generating a further 120 hours of self-study per unit including research and related study activities, including assessment. This translates as 13 hours per week for the unit.